The auction

esse will be holding a fundraising auction of artworks on November 11th, 2009, 6 p.m. at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The prestigious event will bring together major art collectors as well as some of the best artists around.

Auctioneer: Stephen Ranger

The publication

esse is also currently producing a reference book Vendu / Sold, Insights into Collecting and the Art Market, where the artworks that are part of the auction will be reproduced as well as essays by nine personalities from the art world. The book launch will take place during the esse auction at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Featured artists:
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Raymonde April, Mathieu Beauséjour, Gwenaël Bélanger, Patrick Bernatchez, BGL, Valérie Blass, Marie-Claude Bouthillier, Sylvain Bouthillette, Martin Bureau, Michel de Broin, Raphaëlle de Groot, Evergon, Jérôme Fortin, Dominique Gaucher, Karine Giboulo, Pascal Grandmaison, Milutin Gubash, Adad Hannah, Daniel Langevin, Jennifer Lefort, Emmanuelle Léonard, Rick Leong, Wil Murray, Yann Pocreau, Jeanie Riddle, David K. Ross, Marc Séguin, Justin Stephens, Eve K. Tremblay, Chih-Chien Wang, Janet Werner and Max Wyse.

Featured writers:
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Anne-Claude Bacon (Manager, Hydro-Québec's art collection)
Jo-Ann Kane (Curator, National Bank Financial Group Collection)
Rhéal Olivier Lanthier (President of the Contemporary Art Galleries association AGAC and co-director of the Art Mûr Gallery)
Paul Maréchal (Art Historian and Curator of the Power Corporation of Canada Collection)
Paul Mattick (Professor of philosophy at Adelphi University)
Raymonde Moulin (Sociologist, Emeritus research director at the CNRS)
Clint Roenisch (Director of the Clint Roenisch Gallery)

Interviews with:
Rebecca Wilson (Saatchi Online) by Stéphane Baillargeon,
Stephen Ranger (Auctioneer) by Silvia Casas.

Official framer:
Encadrement Tout Autour

Official Carier:
Fero Transport

Florist:
Creative Nature Créative